Interesting, about Ron Paul.
I feel bad that we didn’t clean up the rigging after what they did to him in ‘12. It wasn’t right and we’re once again paying the price for our apathy and inaction.
Surely, after this election the Republican Party can reconstruct the delegate system where the candidate or his surrogates can pick their own slate of contenders to be their proportioned delegates, who are at least core loyalists to the candidate.
How hard is that?
The bullying and the litmus tests of the congressional district gang mentality would be stopped cold, once they no longer have a say in who the delegates can be who are picked.
I don’t see the necessity for the battles after the First Ballot either. I believe the First Ballot can easily see the results of the popular vote and get the picture. Maybe I don’t have the whole picture, but in this case, it is ridiculous to me, for 2016.
Actually, it was Ron that was trying to do the delegate rigging in 12 (He wasn't winning primaries). The GOP of course pulled out every lie and trick to stop him and called him scum for doing it. Which is ironic how they've done it themselves in favor of Cruz.
The thing that really destroyed Ron's campaign was the media ignoring him once they realized he was a threat. Total media blackout on Ron Paul. They wanted to do the same to Trump, but Trump pulling them in like they were cats and he's catnip.
Given that information can be disseminated nearly instantaneously today a simple run-off election process would make much more sense. The entire nomination process would take a few weeks at most, depending on how many candidates were in the race. The first one to 50% + 1 gets the nomination.